Dark thoughts and deeds are celebrated by the Edgar Awards; finalists announced today

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the finalists for the 2015 Edgars, or more formally, the Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The awards, which celebrate writing for print and screen, will be presented at a gala ceremony in New York on April 29.

James Ellroy and Lois Duncan were named grand masters. Duncan, who began writing in the 1950s and has been recently reissued by Lizzie Skurnick Books, has won five previous Edgars, all in the juvenile category. Ellroy has previously won one Edgar; in 2014 he returned to his Los Angeles Quartet with the prequel “Perfidia.”

Finalists include longtime favorites such as Stephen King, Karin Slaughter and Ian Rankin, all of whom are nominated in the novel category.
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Newcomer Lacy Johnson’s “The Other Side” is a finalist in the fact crime category. Published by independent Tin House Books, the memoir was also announced as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography this week.

The Jim Mancall book on James Ellroy is published by McFarland & Co, not Oxford UP. http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-categories/mcfarland-companions-to-mystery-fiction-2/
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